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The Blue Peter Book Awards

The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were strated in 2000 for books published in 1999. 

 

 

Best Story

Best Book with Facts

2021

A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

A Day In The Life Of A Poo, A Gnu And You by Mike Barfield

2020

Wildspark by Vashti Hardy

 

Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li

2019

The Boy At the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf

The Colours of History by Clive Gifford

2018

The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell

Real-Life Mysteries by Susan Martineau

2017

Podkin One Ear by Kieran Larwood

Survivors by David Long

2016

The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie

The Epic Book of Epicness by Adam Frost

2015

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners by Pamela Butchart

The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff by Andy Seed

2014

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: World War II by Tony Robinson

2013

Tom Gates: Genius Ideas (mostly)

House of Horrors (Horrible Science series) by Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles

 

 

Book of the year

2012

The Considine Curse by Gareth P. Jones

2011

Dead Man's Cove (Laura Marlin Mysteries

2010

Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes

2009

Shadow Forest by Matt Haig

2008

No award

 

 

Book of the Year

Most Fun Story With Pictures

Best Book with Facts

Book I Couldn't Put Down

2007

The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said

You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman

The Worst Children's Jobs in History by Tony Robinson

The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said

2006

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Spud Goes Green by Giles Thaxton

Blood Fever by Charlie Higson

2005

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson

Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole by Simon Chapman

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

2004

Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram

Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram

The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn

Montmorency by Eleanor Updale

2003

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

Pirate Diary by Richard Platt

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

2002

Feather Boy by Nicky Singer

Crispin, the Pig Who Had It All by Ted Dewan

Ada Lovelace: The Computer Wizard of Victorian England by Lucy Lethbridge

Feather Boy by Nicky Singer

 

 

Book of the Year

Best Book to Read Aloud

Book I Couldn't Put Down

Best Book to Keep Forever

2001

The Wind Singer by William Nicholson

The Bravest Ever Bear by Allan Ahlberg and Paul Howard

The Wind Singer by William Nicholson

The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

2000

A Pilgrim's Progress, retelling of The Pilgrim's Progress

A Pilgrim's Progress, retelling of The Pilgrim's Progress

Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson